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Mountainous regions are changing rapidly across the world due to both land-use change and climate change. Given the importance of mountainous regions for ecosystem services and endemic biodiversity, monitoring these changes is essential.
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Mountainous regions are changing rapidly across the world due to both land-use change and climate change. Given the importance of mountainous regions for ecosystem services and endemic biodiversity, monitoring these changes is essential.
J. Buchner +15 more
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Challenges Facing the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus
Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2007Two geographers report on the current challenges facing the inhabitants of the Caucasus mountains on the borders of Russia and its southern neighbors, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The authors discuss the impacts of new post-Soviet borders and controls as well as unresolved conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the Prigorodnyy
Jean Radvanyi, Shakhmardan S. Muduyev
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Mountain of Tongues: The Languages of the Caucasus
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1977a place of mystery and legend. They dominated the farthest recess of the Euxine Sea; to Greek mariners the voyage to the Colchi4ian city of Phasis (the modern Poti) and up the like-named river (now known by the Svan name of "Rioni") was the 'EcrXaTO, 8poJ.to" the "uttermost run." Thither the Argonauts went in quest ofthe Golden Fleece, and in the ...
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The Vegetation of the Subnival Belt of the Caucasus Mountains
Arctic and Alpine Research, 1998Almost all the altitudinal belts common to the western part of Eurasia are represented in the Caucasus Mountains. The subnival belt is especially well represented in the Central Caucasus.
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Representation of the mountain peoples of the North Caucasus
Гуманитарные и юридические исследованияThe Caucasus “exposure” as an imperial subject in the process of acquisition of the region looks to be one of the significant issues of modern history studies. The Russian ranks and files, including D.A. Milyutin – the gifted serviceman of the XIX c. – were its active participants. Materials and methods.
T. A. Kolosovskaya, S. A. Suray
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Caucasus Mountains and Armenian Highlands
1984The Caucasus mountains and Armenian highlands represent the eastern part of the technically young, epigeosynclinal orogenic Alpine zone, lying between the Scythian platform (Hercynian) and the Arabian platform (Precambrian). The Great Caucasus forms the outer ridges of the Alpine orogenic system, while the Armenian highlands form an inner sector ...
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Mountainous meadow-steppe soils in high mountains of the Eastern Caucasus region
Eurasian Soil Science, 2009The results of comprehensive investigations into the soil-forming conditions, morphology, substantive composition, physicochemical properties, bulk elemental composition, and mineralogy of mountainous meadow-steppe soils of the Eastern Caucasus region are discussed.
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To the North and the South, through the Great Caucasus Mountains
Antiquity, 2021The publication of the British-Georgian exploration of Dariali Gorge (2013–2016) represents a substantial benchmark for the archaeology of the Caucasus, above all else for its multi-faceted approach. While numerous international and local projects continue a well-established tradition of archaeological research in the region, few have attempted the ...
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The Literature of the mountain Jews of the Caucasus (Part 2)
Soviet Jewish Affairs, 1986(1986). The Literature of the mountain Jews of the Caucasus (Part 2) Soviet Jewish Affairs: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 35-51.
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Mountain-meadow soils of the highlands in the Western Caucasus
Eurasian Soil Science, 2010The published and author’s data on soil-forming conditions, morphology, substance composition and physicochemical properties, total chemical and mineralogical composition, and micromorphology of mountain-meadow soils of the Western Caucasus Range are analyzed.
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